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Re:A proposal to start “llvm-libc” (2020) on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @07:09PM (#29479860)
The Microsoft C standard library implementation also takes this approach - C++ implementation with C exports, for the reasons called out by the sibling comments.
Re:Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:12AM (#19644466)
That does not always necessarily follow. The VC runtime, for the C portion of the library, is now written in C++ internally.
Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:19PM (#9222328)
Windows has moved to an evergreen OS model: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next...
Interestingly enough, it wasn't $future_version, but version 1.0, that didn't even support .NET and was scriptable only through JS. Silverlight is still scriptable through JS to this day. Given that Silverlight already supports a hybrid model I can image we could expect that to continue, with HTML as a possible alternative UI langauge to XAML.
That's probably the issue with the JS standard they discuss here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/07/16/how-ie9-platfo...
Re:The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:09PM (#910499)
The Vatican started doing that millenia after there were no native populations of latin-speakers left.
Re:XKCD commemerates GeoCities on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:15PM (#903614)
why not R6RS?
Re:DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users. on Thursday September 24, 2009 @10:07PM (#842736)
FolderShare was acquired. I don't know if Microsoft has done a terrible lot with the program since the acquisition to be able to claim the success as its own.